In democracies people get the politicians they deserve and if this is all we can find to differentiate between the two candidates, the Brexit one should go on to see through the will of the people expressed in the referendum.

If Nicola wants another independence referendum because of that then she should go for it, although I doubt whether the outcome would be any different.

Britain getting a deal with continued access to the single market like Norway and Switzerland i.e full access, plus new deals with Commonwealth and other countries, will demonstrate the weakness of Nicola’s imagined case that Brexit will damage Scotland – it won’t and an independent Scotland should follow the Norwegian/Swiss route.